This was an awesome moment. It had been cloudy and windy and we were playing cards in the mess tent, camped at about 18,000' / 5600m after having crossed two 20K passes. We were staying hydrated so I had to leave the tent and saw this. There was one other tripod-toting photograher on the trek and I shouted back, "Chis, you gotta get out here!". We both grabbed our tripods and shot photos during the 15 minute window before the light was gone.

Good memory! This was originally posted over a year ago, but Mathias asked a question about this mountain due to it being in another photo. Our discussion is here. I deleted the old one and submitted this improved, sharper scan with better color saturation. I'm glad you still like it, thanks.

Thanks for your comments on the photo. The original submission was scanned and saved a s JPG image. I then did some color balance work since my scanner just doesn't get it right, and saved the image again as JPG. Next I either resized it or submitted it to SP too large and SP resizes it. Each of those three steps causes a loss of sharpness, which is cumulative. Details like the snow flutings on the face were very soft in the first submission.

This time it was scanned and saved as a TIFF file, which is loss-less. Color balance, resizing, and sharpening could be applied before saving as a JPG only one time. This JPG was then uploaded to SP which did no further processing since the size was already OK. The final result is a noticeably sharper image.

Great! Thanks for the answer...now I guess I am going to have to practice tinkering with a few photos to see how this works. But as my high school track coach always said ( I am not sure why he said it but he did) "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Looks like you started with the silk purse and just made it silkier!

Thanks Bob. This is a film scanner, a now five year old HP Photosmart S20. It's not the greatest but at the time it seemed like the best value. You can find them on Ebay these days for pretty cheap.

It was a slide, Fuji Provia 100. I am using Vuescan software to scan the slide, then I pull it in to Paint Shop Pro to try to get the color balance, saturation, contrast, and all-important sharpening more like I remember it. The scanner just doesn't get it right. It's taken a long time to learn how to tweak all those dials, and it is still a struggle of trial and error.

Starting with a slide like this helps. If I had dropped my camera and the shutter went off it still would have been a decent shot!

Interesting. I've been using a Minolta Dimâge Scan Dual film scanner since 1998, so mine's getting pretty old too. I know exactly what you mean about correcting colors, etc., and I use PSP as well, but I quit using Vuescan, although I'm not sure why. I use the curves on the native scanner software, which seems to work fine for me, now that I've finally learned how to correct the various color problems. I shoot Provia 100F exclusively now, although I've shot Kodachrome and Ektachrome in the past as well.